Teen girl shot, man hurt in fight between 2 groups

SAN DIEGO: A 16-year-old girl was shot and a man was beaten and stabbed during a fight early yesterday in City Heights, San Diego police said.

A fight between two groups of men broke out about 2:40 a.m. at Swift and University avenues, Officer Brad Ruff said.

One man fired two to four rounds from a handgun, striking the teenage girl once in the knee. She was taken to a hospital; her injuries were not life-threatening, Ruff said.

One man returned to the scene and told police he had been beaten and stabbed in the shoulder. The injury was minor, police said. –S.S.

Man with shotgun locks 2 in cooler, robs store

SAN DIEGO: A masked robber carrying a shotgun forced the manager of a Navy convenience store in Serra Mesa to open the store's safe before locking him in a walk-in cooler with an employee Friday night, San Diego police said.

No one was injured. The amount of money taken was not disclosed. The robbery happened at the Navy-run Nexcom store on Afton Road near Jordan Street, Officer Brad Ruff said.

The robber was described as white man, possibly in his 40s, 5 feet 10 inches tall, about 170 pounds, wearing a dark bomber jacket and dark pants. –P.R.

7-Eleven store robbed at gunpoint by masked men

LA MESA: La Mesa police say two men wearing black ski-type masks and white surgical gloves – one of them armed with a small-caliber pistol – robbed a 7-Eleven on Amaya Drive near Howell Drive about 12:30 a.m. yesterday.

The armed man demanded cash from the clerk. The other man took about 10 packs of Newport cigarettes and beer. They ran from the store north on Howell Drive.

Man's throat is cut in random act of violence

SAN DIEGO: A 20-year-old man was attacked by another man in an apparent random crime yesterday in the Midway District, San Diego police said.

The attacker used a small knife to cut the victim's throat about 2:30 p.m. in front of an apartment building on Pacific Highway near Kurtz Street, said Sgt. Ray Battrick. The victim was taken to a hospital; his injury was not considered life-threatening.

The suspect was described as black, in his mid-20s, with short dreadlocks, wearing a camouflage baseball cap facing backward and carrying a black backpack. Police said the two men did not know each other. –S.S.

Trailer flips, trapping 2 horses for 30 minutes

ESCONDIDO: Two horses were temporarily trapped after the trailer they were riding in became unhitched from a truck yesterday and overturned on southbound Interstate 15, authorities said.

The accident happened about 10:45 a.m. when the trailer struck a concrete barrier on the Valley Parkway offramp and turned on its side, the California Highway Patrol said.

The horses were freed from the trailer about 30 minutes later and had minor injuries, according to the Escondido Humane Society. A spokeswoman for the group said a witness who saw the accident took the horses in another trailer to the owner's residence.

Vehicles were backed up on the freeway following the accident, and the CHP issued a traffic alert, which was lifted about 12:50 p.m. –S.S.